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BNSF Railway Freight Cars Vol 1 by Robert C Del Grosso Hard Cover
BNSF Railway Freight Cars Vol 1 by Robert C Del Grosso
Hard Cover
112 pages
Copyright 2004
CONTENTS
BNSF Freight Cars - 5 Wabash RoadRailer - 9
Intermodal Doublestack Well Cars - 11
203003-203018, 210000-21000948' Husky-Stack Standalone12
212000-21250148' Maxi-Stack AP 3-Unit AP14
237300-23779940' Maxi-Stack I 5-Unit15
240000-24087948' Maxi-Stack III 5-Unit17
211000-211332, 253000-25349953' Maxi-Stack IV 3-Unit19
Automobile Carrier Cars
303057-303146, 306000-306153 Tri-Level Auto Rack21
314000-314228Auto-Max23
Covered Hopper Cars
400253-4011104,180 Cu. Ft. Airslide25
405-, 406-, 407000-Series 3,010 Cu. Ft. Cement28
405800-4062852,970 Cu. Ft. Cement31
409000-4093493,425 Cu. Ft. Cement33
450000-4506495,161 Cu. Ft. Sugar34
466000-4714994,750 Cu. Ft. Grain35
471500-4770125,161 Cu. Ft. Grain37
Gondola Cars
500-, 501-, 505-, 511000-Series52'-6" Equipped39
510731-51074152'-6" Extended Height41
529000-534728, 534000-534728Coil Steel42
541340-541437Woodchip47
Flat Cars
56'-8" Bulkhead - 49
545079-545440, 552085-552197Standard Bulkhead 50
567119-567513,567460-567477,567513 Cradle Equipped Bulkhead51
Centerbeam "Partition" Cars - 53
559000-55945360'-8" Centerbeam54
559454-55962473'-0" Centerbeam56
561000-56100373'-0" Canter Partition57
562000-56289973'-0" Center Partition58
564000-564199FleXi-Beam59
584942-58500160' Farm Implement61
585077-58515460' Farm Implement61
585169-58542368' Heavy Duty62
585243-58567260' Automobile Components 62
Open Top Hopper Cars
600000-601040, 601090-60139929'-6" 105-ton Taconite Ore63
617309-61775145'-1" 100-Ton Self Clearing65
615500-61667945'-0" 100-Ton Self-Clearing66
619991-62016649'-8" 100-Ton Self-Clearing67
INTRODUCTION
Burlington Northern Inc. and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation merged into Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation on September 22, 1995. Their chief subsidiaries were the Burlington Northern Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. While under the parent BNSF corporate umbrella, both merged on December 31, 1996 to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company. The two entities are formally referred to as BNSF Corporation and BNSF Railway, but in everyday parlance as BNSF.
Formation of the BNSF Railway created the BNSF freight car reporting mark, adding to the inventory of reporting marks identifying the merger-acquired railway company cars. Along with the freight car number, these are the primary means in identifying a car's owner, type of car and a basic description thereof for use by the railroads on the North American continent and the shippers of commodities.
It was not until the railway merger that the new BNSF freight car numbering system, paint schemes and a railway logo were formally adopted. During the transition some freight car series were delivered in pre-merger railway numbers and paint schemes with others delivered in BNSF interim paint schemes adorned with the corporate logo.
BNSF Railway decided early on that it would not institute a massive freight car repainting and renumbering program. It was contrary to railroad industry practice, very expensive and not needed. To phase-in their newly adopted Mineral brown paint scheme as pertaining to the pre-merger revenue freight car fleet, only those cars having a long-term retention period and needing a new paint job would be completely repainted and given a BNSF freight car reporting mark and number. Older and redundant cars scheduled for phase-out or retirement not be repainted or renumbered. Instead, their carbody paint would be touched-up and continue in service until sidelined.
Only those cars with paint jobs in excellent condition having suffered minor damages and in the shops for repair might be renumbered into the BNSF system. These are called "patch jobs" as a stencil or decal is used to obliterate the old car reporting mark and number and replaced with BNSF. The car otherwise looks the same. The major exception has been the intermodal container well car fleet in which all cars have been in the process of being renumbered into BNSF using those patches and the project almost completed.
These policies have witnessed a steady transition in the BNSF revenue freight car fleet eight years into the merger. Thousands of new cars with BNSF paint and reporting marks have since been added. Hundreds of pre-merger cars have been repainted and renumbered into BNSF. Thousands still retain their AT&SF, BN, BNFE, CB&Q, C&S, GN, NP and SLSF reporting marks and paint schemes (none remain for the SP&S). A large number will become BNSF in future years, but a larger number retired as they appear now, only more weathered and worn-out.
Most interesting are older freight cars that have been repainted into BNSF colors. With few already on the roster and only a few to be repainted, one-of-a-kind's already roam the system and are rare sightings indeed. Unfortunately, some of these BNSF repaints have already been retired and their passing unrecorded. One goal of this multi-book endeavor is to preserve whatever is possible now for future reference.
Since the BNSF Railway merger created a new BNSF reporting mark, the author decided to monitor the types and totals of new cars the railway has acquired annually. Also, the types and totals of pre-merger cars repainted and renumbered into the BNSF car number system. In doing so a complete annual inventory of the entire BNSF-owned freight car fleet was required.
October of each year was selected as October 1995 was the first full month in which BNSF existed and the same month in which the subsequent issue of the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) was published. It is the Industry source for revenue freight car totals for railroads and private car operators listed by their reporting mark and car number series.
This book presents photographs of the BNSF freight car paint scheme and variations thereof on a variety of BNSF freight cars. Also included are aforementioned annual inventories of how many cars exist; a short historical description; technical information as to dimensions, specifications and capacities; car diagrams for most; and special information regarding the car series itself.
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